Lesson 47 of 84 · Engineering and Design

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Predicting What Will Happen (Part 3)

🧪Lab Brief #47

Engineering and Design.

🎯 Your mission

Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.

⚡ The twist

The first design always fails. That's the point.

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Mind = Blown

🚀 The Saturn V rocket burned 20 tons of fuel per second at liftoff.

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Make a hypothesis first

Guess: what's the weakest part of this build?

What You'll Learn

Plants need different amounts of water. Test this by watering plants different amounts and watching what happens!

Key Words

compare
record

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Look at the new words. Can you say each one?

Step 2 — Do

Design a boat from foil that can hold the most pennies without sinking.

Step 3 — Observe

Use your senses to describe what you notice.

Step 4 — Record

Write 1-2 sentences about what happened.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What does 'predict' mean?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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Where you see this in real life

Your phone, your bike, your shoes — all designed with this idea.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Build something — anything — out of stuff in your recycling bin.

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For the dinner table

“What's something around the house you'd redesign — and how?”

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Next Smart Experiment

We'll pick an experiment that matches exactly how you're thinking right now.

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Send it to a parent who's looking for a 10-minute kitchen science win.

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